PHILADELPHIA 
Pennsylvania's Republican candidates for governor and Senate forecast victory Monday as they boarded a plane and took off on a barnstorming tour of six rallies across the state on the eve of the election.

GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey, a former congressman, is in a tight race with his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak. Polls have shown Republican gubernatorial hopeful Tom Corbett, the state attorney general, leading his Democratic rival, Dan Onorato, the elected executive of Allegheny County.

Corbett and Toomey greeted more than 100 supporters at a festive northeast Philadelphia hotel ballroom rally Monday morning before taking off for rallies in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Harrisburg, Johnstown, Erie, Pittsburgh and Allentown areas.

The final stop Monday evening in the Lehigh Valley swing region of eastern Pennsylvania included a GOP "rally in the valley" in Bethlehem.

GOP optimism was affirmed by the fact that Republicans cast more absentee ballots than Democrats.

Corbett urged GOP activists to get out the vote Tuesday so he can begin the spending cuts that he says are crucial to the state's future.

"Don't do it for me, don't do it for yourselves; do it for the children of Pennsylvania, because that's what this race is about. ... This is a generational election," Corbett said.

Toomey delivered a similar message.

"Elections don't get won by accident, and nothing is inevitable," he said. "We've got to earn this; we've got to earn this every day."

Sestak began shaking hands and handling out fliers before the sun was up in the Democratic bastion of Philadelphia, starting at the 30th Street train station and branching out to diners.

"It's just a lot of adrenaline now," the former Navy admiral said. "A lot of people have invested in me their hopes and their beliefs that maybe we can change things, so if there's one more hand to shake, I just want to shake it and say 'Please come and support me.'"

Onorato and other Democratic candidates were out in force at rallies, drawing potential voters with luminaries like President Bill Clinton and, later Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama.